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Jeff Hedlund dad5a33865 fix(desktop): keep packaged frontendDist relative so Windows embeds assets (#7177)
## Root cause

`tauri-command.mjs` points `frontendDist` at a `mkdtemp` directory so
concurrent OSS/internal packages cannot overwrite each other's assets.
On Windows that is an absolute path with a drive letter.

`FrontendDist` is an untagged serde enum whose **first** variant is
`Url(Url)`, and `C:\Users\...` is a valid WHATWG URL with scheme `c:`,
so serde selects `Url`. `tauri-codegen` then does:

    FrontendDist::Url(_url) => Default::default(),   // embed nothing

A missing *directory* panics with a clear message; a URL is silent. The
build exits 0 and produces an installable app with no frontend assets,
which boots to `ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND` in the WebView.

Linux and macOS are unaffected — `/tmp/...` has no scheme, so it falls
through to `Directory`.

This affects every Windows build that goes through `pnpm tauri build`,
including `release.yml`'s NSIS job and `windows-canary.yml`.

## Fix

Pass the path relative to the config's own directory. `tauri-codegen`
resolves `frontendDist` with `config_parent.join(path)`, so a relative
path reaches the same directory and cannot parse as a URL. When the temp
directory is on another drive there is no relative form, so the scratch
root is created beside the config instead.

`BUZZ_PROTECTED_BUILD_OUTPUT` still receives the absolute path, and
cleanup is unchanged.

## Testing

`tauriCommand.test.mjs` asserted against the value it had just been
handed, so it could not observe this. Its fake CLI also resolved
`frontendDist` against the process cwd, which is not what Tauri does.

- Fake CLI now resolves against the config directory, matching
`config_parent.join(path)`.
- New case asserts the packaged `frontendDist` is not absolute and does
not parse as a URL. The absolute check is what fails on Linux/macOS, so
the regression stays covered on every platform.
- Verified the new case fails on the unpatched wrapper and passes with
the fix; the two existing cases pass either way.
- Desktop suite: 5844 passed. `useDocumentVisible` has a pre-existing
load-dependent flake that also reproduces on an unmodified checkout.
- Biome check clean on both files.

Verified end to end by rebuilding the Windows NSIS installer: embedded
asset keys in `buzz-desktop.exe` went from 0 to 490, and the app
launches.

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Signed-off-by: Jeff Hedlund <jhedlund@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-05 09:04:06 -06:00
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Buzz

Desktop chat shell with:

  • Tauri + React + TypeScript + Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui-ready shared components
  • Biome (lint/format/check)
  • Feature-driven frontend structure

Scripts

  • pnpm dev - run the web frontend
  • pnpm tauri dev - run the desktop app
  • pnpm build - typecheck and build frontend
  • pnpm typecheck - TypeScript checks
  • pnpm lint - Biome lint
  • pnpm format - Biome format (write)
  • pnpm check - Biome check

Structure

  • src/shared - reusable app-wide code (ui, lib, styles)
  • src/features - feature modules (vertical slices)
  • src/app - top-level app composition